Sriram Natesan

BI modernization and consulting leader with 18+ years of experience driving enterprise Business Intelligence transformation — from legacy estate migration to governed, adopted, AI-ready analytics platforms. Proven record leading migrations off OBIEE, SAP Business Objects, MicroStrategy, and Cognos onto modern platforms including Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, and Superset. Combines deep platform and architecture credibility with pre-sales strategy, effort estimation, SOW ownership, and practice leadership.

Currently advancing GenAI and GenBI adoption — backed by a formal certification in Applied Generative AI and Agentic AI - with focus on semantic-layer design for agentic-AI grounding and context engineering as a first-order discipline for reliable, business-facing analytics.

BI Strategist – BI Growth, Modernization, GenAI/GenBI - Impetus - Bengaluru, India

(2021-09)

• Lead Business Intelligence (BI) modernization practise and engagements for enterprise clients, driving migrations from legacy platforms (OBIEE, SAP BO, MicroStrategy, Cognos) to modern BI ecosystems (Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, Superset).
• Architect greenfield semantic models and reporting layers, embedding governance frameworks that ensure platform sustainability, security, and long-term trust in the data.
• Design and deploy reusable accelerators for BI estate assessment, rationalization, and migration, reducing engagement timelines and de-risking delivery across multiple client programs.
• Build adoption programs that convert modernized BI platforms into measurable business-user uptake, embedding data analytics practices into day-to-day decision-making rather than one-time technical go-lives.
• Lead a cross-functional BI practice, aligning engineers across skill levels and cross-skilling teams on BI, data, and emerging AI tooling to keep delivery capacity high and deployment-ready.
• Partner with pre-sales and sales teams on discovery, current-state assessments, SOW development, and executive-level proposal delivery for prospective modernization engagements.
• Drive internal Gen AI and GenBI initiatives — including semantic-layer design for agentic-AI grounding and reliability, and applying context engineering principles to accelerator development.

Senior Technical Architect (BI / Tableau Architect) - HCL Technologies - Bengaluru, India

(2020-09 - 2021-09)

• Served as Tableau Architect and Senior Administrator, managing enterprise client relationships and proposing end-to-end roadmaps for visualization and platform administration needs.
• Created interactive visualizations in Tableau Desktop using multiple data sources, publishing for enterprise consumption, and guiding users on optimization techniques.
• Performed High-Level Design (HLD) architecture, capacity planning, sizing of reporting infrastructure, and performance tuning for large-scale reports and dashboards.
• Led Tableau platform upgrades and data-center migrations, ensuring zero-disruption transitions for high-availability enterprise environments.
• Drove usage-analytics initiatives, applying Tableau as a data-analysis tool to build architectural recommendations for client reporting ecosystems.
• Participated in Center of Excellence (COE) activities, proofs-of-concept, and customer workshops spanning Tableau, IBM Pure Data Analytics, and AWS cloud platforms for designing high-availability applications.
• Executed project-management functions — schedule, cost and effort estimation, risk management, alert monitoring, escalation, and client/vendor coordination for production support setup.

Technical Lead (BI Architect / Team Lead) - Mindtree - Bengaluru, India

(2013-12 - 2020-08)

• Led BI architecture, project management, and platform administration across Tableau, SAP Business Objects, IBM Pure Data Analytics, and AWS for enterprise clients, managing solutions from roadmap through execution.
• Administered complex, clustered Tableau and SAP BO environments supporting user bases of up to 30,000 users — owning security, authentication management, and database-connection configuration across the full BI stack.
• Executed SAP BO platform upgrades and migrations leveraging third-party tooling (360 View), minimizing downtime for critical reporting systems, and built solutions for merging and upgrading multiple BO platforms into a unified platform.
• Performed capacity planning, sizing of reporting infrastructure, and performance optimization supporting large enterprise user bases.
• Supervised solution delivery for Microsoft's internal cloud platform using Azure Cosmos Scope scripting, managing SAP and Microsoft technology projects as Project Manager for teams of 10–15.
• Built and led COE initiatives and customer workshops on Tableau, IBM Pure Data Analytics, and AWS, owning end-to-end project management including escalation handling, client/vendor coordination, and delivery governance.
• Acted as single point of contact for service delivery, operations management, and SLA reviews as Service Delivery Manager — recognized with the Emerging Leader Award.

IT-Tech Lead (Senior Application Support Engineer) - Cognizant Technology Solutions - India

(2012-01 - 2013-12)

• Managed core-banking reporting production support, ensuring high availability of MIS data ahead of business hours.
• Conducted disaster-recovery testing and audits for mission-critical reporting systems, and resolved production issues through detailed root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.

Support Analyst - Capgemini India

(2011-04 - 2012-01)

• Provided 24/7 application support for MRS reporting systems, including EOD batch monitoring, deployments, and system health checks across environments.

Application Support Engineer - Tata Consultancy Services

(2008-07 - 2011-04)

• Delivered end-to-end support for enterprise reporting tools and data pipelines, performing data migrations with Netezza (now IBM Pure Data Analytics) tools and optimizing database performance.
• Provided production ETL fixes using Unix shell scripting, and managed performance tuning through GROOM, CBTs, zone maps, and materialized views.

Master of Computer Applications - MCA - VIT University (2008)

Bachelor of Science - Electronics - Delhi University (2005)